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| Charles Murray right wing loser/hater/pundit |
The article first appeared in the Philadelphia City Paper. Click here to read more great content from them.
Charles Murray, a leading
right-wing polemicist, has spent three decades beating up on poor black
people. His new book, however, is an act of more equal opportunity
opprobrium, arguing that white working class America is in crisis
because it has a fucked up and backward culture. And his main example
is Philadelphia's Fishtown.
Murray published summaries of Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 in the Wall Street Journal and another in the right-wing New Criterion.
His argument is a mean and vicious slander against the people of
Fishtown and working class people everywhere, detailing the decline of
what he calls the “Founding virtues” of industriousness, honesty,
marriage, and religion amongst the rabble. It's based on the
Philadelphia neighborhood, but Murray uses “Fishtown” as an exemplar to
generalize about white Americans with “no academic degree higher than a
high school diploma...[and unemployed or working in] a blue-collar,
service, or low-level white-collar occupation.”
Murray
complains that Fishtown residents are increasingly less moral than
people in Belmont, based on the wealthy white Boston suburb full of
“successful people in managerial and professional occupations―the elites
who are in positions of influence over the nation’s economy, media,
intellectual life, and politics.” Which is where Mitt Romney lives―so I
suppose he offers a lesson in hypocrisy, avarice and greed, huh? But
beyond Murray's poisonous politics, the biggest problem is that his
argument is wrong. READ MORE
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